Telecom Inventory Management

Can telecom inventory management help to keep track of our telephone lines, data inventory, and wireless inventory? Yes, Auditel telecom inventory management can track voice, phone and wireless services and even capture all data services. To begin making a telecom inventory it’s important to know about all of your service locations. In fact, each phone bill, data bill, and wireless bill contains a billing address. Although this location can be different from the actual service address if your company has all telecom bills centralized.

For best telecom inventory management start by gathering information about all your service locations including address and main billing telephone number MBTN

How can I find out what telecom bills my company pays for monthly? Check with your Accounts Payable department to obtain each locations invoice. If your bills have centralized billing the bills may be mailed to corporate HQ location. Always make sure to locate all service provider invoices. Furthermore, any accounts that are missed will make a big difference in your telecom inventory accuracy.

Request all telecom bills from Accounts Payable or track them down by location.

What should a telecom inventory contain? Auditel starts each project by obtaining the telecom service information. This is the first step to building clients voice inventory, wireless inventory, and data inventory. Knowing the service provider telecom contract or service agreement start date and expiration date is key, but most people don’t go the next step to research any contract terminationclauses (this is a time period prior to contract expiration date that you must cancel the contract prior to renewal. Most telecom contracts include a contract renewal clause and termination clause. It’s important to notify them in writing that you want to cancel service prior to automatic contract renewal. Therefore, identifying the legal terms and conditions in each telecom contract, wireless contract, or data contract will help reveal more details about your telecom services.

Locate all signed commercial legal service level agreements and minimum annual revenue commitments. Make sure to find signed telecom, wireless contracts, and data contracts, plus any addendums.

Why is it important to review telecom contracts? Every commercial legal contract should be reviewed by your legal department, or by a company specializing in contract management, like Auditel. The Minimum Annual Revenue Commitment MARC has legal contract commitments that may be analyzed to verify Service Provider revenue commitments, service level clauses, and contract termination clauses, legal terms and conditions, and expiration dates. This will help to avoid telecom penalties and extra charges monthly. Added contract details include telecom contract start date and expiration. Most telecom contracts include a contract renewal clause and your job is to find the cancellation policy and time remaining prior to termination to notify them in writing that you want to cancel service.

Even if you choose to create your own inventory a second look into your contracts is always a good option. Auditel will only charge a fee for items we uncover. Subsequently, your findings will remain your findings. Since lawyers and other telecom consultants turn to Auditel for contract analysis, don’t wait until contracts expire before having Auditel review your telecom inventory management. Auditel can give your company the knowledge necessary to review the complex terminology within your contract terms and conditions. Furthermore, we bring out all the legal terms and condition clauses you may not understand and check for termination fees and penalties for non-compliance.

Our fees come from the telecom savings we capture and this savings appears on clients telecom invoices. If no telecom savings or telecom recovery are found, Auditel doesn’t charge a fee. In summary, we include a complimentary telecom inventory with each full telecom audit.